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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • That’s the issue. It’s why I’ve learned that when I can afford it and I reasonably believe this firm or project should exist, and it has a decent chance not to fall flat, I end up buying in. It’s literally upfront investment in the thing. I’m still salty for not backing the Ubuntu Phone back in 2012 or so. I looked at it as another phone compared to what’s available on the market and how the price stacks up for the features. That’s very much the wrong way to do it. A part of the value it provides is the existence of the project and the labour dedicated to it. In the case of the new Pebble, I’m backing it despite Eric, and because it’s fully open source and that’s something I want to exist. A fully open alternative in the sea of proprietary wearable crap.










  • Yup. A USB 3 box with internal hub, with 4 disks does 600MB/s on a 5Gbps USB 3 port. You’d be limited by the Pi’s ports if they’re not quite 5Gbps, but you’d still move >200MB/s. I recall running 2 USB disks on a Pi 4, each did over 200MB/s so there’s at least that much bandwith on the Pi. That’s 1600Mbps. Typical 1080p is 5-10Mbps. You’re orders of magnitude away from that.


  • You don’t want hardware raid. Add a powered (by a wall power supply) USB hub. If you want to keep using NVMe drives and mirror them, use ZFS for that. If you’d like to get more storage, get a USB direct attached storage (DAS) box like the ones from Terramaster and stick some disks in it. Those don’t need powered USB hub since they have that built-in. You’d still use ZFS to get your redundancy between disks. Later you can move the box to a different Pi or another computer. Later you can add more disks and expand space if you get a bigger box.